Phase space methods for Majorana fermions

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AAC037zbMATH Open1394.81140arXiv1709.01985OpenAlexW3105842279MaRDI QIDQ3176515FDOQ3176515

Authors: Ria Rushin Joseph, L. Rosales-Zárate, P. D. Drummond 

Publication date: 20 July 2018

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Fermionic phase space representations are a promising method for studying correlated fermion systems. The fermionic Q-function and P-function have been defined using Gaussian operators of fermion annihilation and creation operators. The resulting phase-space of covariance matrices belongs to the symmetry class D, one of the non-standard symmetry classes. This was originally proposed to study mesoscopic normal-metal-superconducting hybrid structures, which is the type of structure that has led to recent experimental observations of Majorana fermions. Under a unitary transformation, it is possible to express these Gaussian operators using real anti-symmetric matrices and Majorana operators, which are much simpler mathematical objects. We derive differential identities involving Majorana fermion operators and an antisymmetric matrix which are relevant to the derivation of the corresponding Fokker-Planck equations on symmetric space. These enable stochastic simulations either in real or imaginary time. This formalism has direct relevance to the study of fermionic systems in which there are Majorana type excitations, and is an alternative to using expansions involving conventional Fermi operators. The approach is illustrated by showing how a linear coupled Hamiltonian as used to study topological excitations can be transformed to Fokker-Planck and stochastic equation form, including dissipation through particle losses.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01985

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zbMATH Keywords

phase-space methodsfermionsMajorana

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Coherent states (81R30) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82C35)

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